The illusion of wealth comes cheap; the illusion of taste costs a fortune.
Apr 262018
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Apr 182018
Whether the world is a certain way is one question, and whether one should act as if it is that way is another.
Apr 062018
Good manners consists in asking quiet people why they won’t talk and not asking noisy ones why they won’t shut up.
Mar 132018
Artistic temperament without artistic talent is the last great infectious plague.
Jan 302018
Truth’s not Beauty, but it’s interesting.
Nov 282017
Civilization is not a cure for barbarism; it is a respite from barbarism, to be enjoyed while it lasts.
Nov 092017
Someone who understands politics is about as likely to set up as a pundit as someone who can predict the future is to set up as a psychic.
Oct 122017
To deify the state has a certain logic; for the state is compulsion and coercion, and these, too, are God’s usual means.
Oct 062017
If you separate Church and State, the State becomes the Church.
Aug 282017
Believing in God is how most people remind themselves that they are not He.